Hopes Wane for Finding Missing Trekkers in Nepal

Nepalese police move the bodies of trekkers, killed in a snowstorm and an avalanche in the Himalayas, to a plane to be transported to Katmandu.

Nepalese police move the bodies of trekkers, killed in a snowstorm...

NEW DELHI — Rescue operations in Nepal's Himalayas moved to more remote outposts Saturday as hopes for finding more than a dozen missing trekkers alive began to wane several days after an intense snowstorm and avalanches.

An official in the Dolpa district, bordering Mustang, said that two helicopters were heading to the district to rescue trekkers reported to be trapped there Saturday morning.

Krishna Prasad Khanal, the chief district officer of Dolpa, said later that the military had rescued 17 trekkers from the Chharka area of the district on Saturday.

Two Swiss trekkers and a Nepali guide had been rescued by a privately hired helicopter elsewhere in Dolpa on Saturday.